Customized servo motors position gyro-stabilized sensor platform
The best camera and sensor systems in the world are nothing if they’re not placed on a stable platform that can point them in the desired direction. No company understands that better than surveillance specialist Gyrocam Systems, which has developed a gyro-stabilized, servo-motor-controlled platform for mast-mounted sensors used to detect IEDs in theaters like Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Compact PCIs empower surface-inspection systems
Parsytec, a German-based supplier of surface-inspection systems, has provided top-value surface inspection systems for over 22 years, with clients including the top 10 metal producers and 15 of the top 20 paper producers worldwide. When the company set out to update the surface-recognition technology in its popular espresso SI machine, Parsytec needed to find a high-quality alternative to industrial PCs being used that featured hard drives, cooling fans, and less-than-optimal failure rates.
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Amazing twistable circuits created
They’ve made electronics that can bend. They’ve made electronics that can stretch. And now, researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have reached their ultimate goal — electronics that can be subjected to any complex deformation, including twisting.
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Wheels (and runners): Bobsleds get BMW aerodynamics treatment
With speeds on international sliding tracks rising year on year, optimum aerodynamics are becoming a decisive success factor for competitors in bobsled and luge events. Which explains why German athletes have been coming to the BMW Group wind tunnel to test their sports equipment for over 20 years now.
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5-Star Product: Tough, frictionless off-highway position sensors
Looking for a long-life potentiometer replacement for your long-stroke application? Macro Sensors has expanded its LP 750 Series Hermetically Sealed Frictionless Position Sensors with a line of low-voltage units for hydraulic cylinder and valve position sensing within off-road vehicles, farm equipment, and construction equipment including cranes and forklifts.
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